Doing exercise in pregnancy is very
important. This thing is good for health as well as process of giving birth of
pregnant women in the future.
However, not all pregnant women know
clearly the things that they should do and shouldn’t do about doing exercise in
pregnancy. On the condition that your children develop normally, doing exercise
regularly will make you and your children have the best health.
Doing exercise is good for health as well
as process of giving birth of pregnant women in the future.
You need to ensure that there isn’t any
shaking taking place in during practicing process. Therefore, it is very good.
Good activities when pregnant women do exercise in
pregnancy
Activities such as swimming, walking, yoga,
pilates, aerobics with smooth movements are perfect choices for you. However,
becoming pregnant isn’t a suitable time for you to begin to practice
specialized sport and exercise strongly.
Smooth
activities such as swimming, yoga… are perfect choices for pregnant women.
When you become pregnant, relaxing hormones
will be released. They will reduce unpleasant feeling, difficulties and
stresses in your body. Theses hormones will help your bones and joints be
lubricated. They are very good for health. Besides, they also help your hipbone
exercise smoothly and are ready for journey to welcome newborn babies in the
next time.
However, you need to pay attention that all
your exercising need to have instructor because in this process, hormones in
your body are more sensitive than normal a lot. If you practice movements
incorrectly, you can suffer from a sprain or catch other trauma.
Some activities about doing exercise that you should avoid
in pregnancy
Your body is spending a sensitive period,
so you shouldn’t do any activities that can make you slide, fall. For example,
strong activities such as ride a horse, go skiing, climb up the mountain,
football, basketball…
You are advised to refer idea of doctor or
midwife before attending any sport activities. Surely, they will give you the
correct advice.
You
are advised to refer idea of doctor or midwife before attending any sport
activities.
What should pregnant women wear when they attend to do
exercise?
You need to choose cool clothes, you
shouldn’t choose clothes whose cloth is hot, especially in the first 3 months.
If you wear clothes that are too hot, this thing has bad effect to fetus.
You should also choose specialized bra for
sport and it must be suitable with pregnant women.
The temperature of body after practicing
sport should be under 39.2oC.
Useful advices
You should do exercise at least 3 times a
week and 30 minutes for each time. You shouldn’t be greedy and you should let
your body take a rest some days in week. This thing will make your body
balanced because if you practice 5 times or more in a week, baby will have the
risk of having lighter weight than other babies.
In addition, practicing too much will make
you be harmed.
You need to make your body hot and start
before doing exercise. This thing will make your muscles and joints ready to
attend activities. Walking on the spot, rising shoulder, and stretching your
legs in some minutes can make your heart attend exercises easily.
It’s a mistake when you ignore starting and
begin to do exercise. This thing will make you unintentionally cause harm to
yourselves. (feeling dizzy, reducing the amount of blood to uterus, losing
balance,…).
You should drink a lot of water. You should
try to drink about 2 glasses of water before doing exercise. During practicing
process, you can stop in a while to drink water in mouthfuls. This will make
your body regulate and avoid the state of losing water.
Losing water will be very dangerous because
this phenomenon make body’s temperature increase, so it isn’t good for you and
babies.
You need to choose a clean and cool space
to practice.
Absolutely, you don’t do exercise too far.
You should remember that you are going to become pregnant. In this period, all
exhausted activities about sport aren’t encouraged at all. Practicing sport in
pregnancy is really good; however, it will be counterproductive when you
practice beyond your ability.
You can use equipment that follow heart
rate during practicing process. This thing is good for your health in
pregnancy.
When you feel unpleasant (a small sign),
you need to stop practicing and take a rest. In necessary cases, you need to
inform this thing to your doctor or midwife to help them know clearly.
Although you are consulted by experts
clearly, no one can understand about yourselves like you.
Before beginning an exercise, you should
study the way to listen to your body. You need to consider whether you have
enough health to attend that exercise or not and you are suitable with it or
not.
